Veronika K. (Вероника Константиновна) Prokopenya (Прокопеня)

Abstrakt

This paper is a cross-linguistic study of pronoun interpretation in various syntactic construction
across three groups of language speakers: non-brain-damaged adults, children
(age 4–5), and agrammatic aphasic patients. Using the obtained experimental results as
a tool, and comparing data from different languages, we managed to determine the main
principles responsible for pronoun interpretation which are consistent with the Primitives
of Binding framework. This theory combines the modular approach to the language system
with the economy principle in the process of reference assignment. Special attention is
paid to methodological questions, especially to procedure choice and stimuli adaptation.